AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM vs AMD FirePro W5000 DVI

VS

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM

AMD FirePro W5000 DVI

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM and 2GB VRAM FirePro W5000 DVI to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock930MHz

Lower TDP (65W vs 75W)

AMD FirePro W5000 DVI 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (102.4GB/s vs 73.60GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 255 OEM

0.952 TFLOPS

FirePro W5000 DVI +33%

1.267 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 255 OEM

VS

FirePro W5000 DVI

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Feb 2013

Volcanic Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

930 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1150 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

73.60GB/s

Bandwidth

102.4GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

12

-

512

Shading Units

768

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

26.40 GPixel/s

29.76 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.60 GTexel/s

-

952.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1267 GFLOPS

59.52 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

79.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Cape Verde PRX

GPU Variant

Pitcairn LE GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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